Learning Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition
This is the code repository for Learning Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition, published by Packt.
Use Ansible to configure your systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced IT tasks
What is this book about?
Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Create a web server using Ansible
- Write a custom module and test it
- Deploy playbooks in the production environment
- Troubleshoot networks using Ansible
- Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
Instructions and Navigations
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
- hosts: all
remote_user: vagrant
tasks:
- name: Ensure the HTTPd package is installed
yum:
name: httpd
state: present
become: True
Following is what you need for this book: This beginner-level book is for system administrators who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).
Software and Hardware List
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-12 | Ansible | UNIX |
| 1-10 | Vagrant | - |
| 11-12 | AWX | Docker |
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Get to Know the Author
Fabio Alessandro Locati commonly known as Fale, is a director at Otelia, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His main areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 12 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for many companies, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. This has allowed him to consider technologies from different points of view, and to think critically about them.
Other books by the authors
Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition
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